Earliest Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments,…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of…

— C. V. Raman

Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But…

— David Christian

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

— Thomas de Quincey

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

— Imre Lakatos

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints…

— Albert Pike

“Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences,…

— Baha'u'llah

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

— L. Ron Hubbard

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so…

— Talcott Parsons

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every…

— Ernest Starling